Summary

The three tools that we have looked are not the only schedulers available, there are also tools such as the following to name a few:

• Nomad: https://www.nomadproject.io/

• Fleet: https://coreos.com/using-coreos/clustering/

• Marathon: https://mesosphere.github.io/marathon/

All these schedulers have their own requirements, complexities, and use cases.

If you had asked me a year ago which of the three schedulers that we have looked in this chapter would I recommend, I would have said Amazons EC2 Container Service. Kubernetes would have been second and I probably wouldn't have mentioned Rancher.

In the past 12 months, Kubernetes has vastly reduced its complexity when it comes to installing the service has removed its biggest barrier to people adopting it, and as we have demonstrated, Rancher reduces this complexity even further.

Unfortunately, this has left EC2 Container Service feeling like it is a lot more complex to both configure and operate when compared to the other tools, especially...